Exposure to urban airborne particulate matter (PM) is associated with adverse health effects. We previously reported that the cytotoxic and proinflammatory effects of Mexico City PM10 (less than or equal to 10 micro m mean aerodynamic diameter) are determined by transition metals and endotoxins associated with these particles. However, PM2.5 (less than or equal to 2.5 micro m mean aerodynamic d...

CO2 concentration is one air quality parameter set by WHO. High concentrations of carbon dioxide will have an impact on human health. a gas that can cause greenhouse effect in city like Surabaya. This study aims to reveal the dynamics northern Surabaya, which center urban activity type research descriptive analytic with quantitative approach. The population used based division administrative re...

AIM To determine if the City University Tritan Test is a useful addition to visual function assessment in rural communities in northern Nigeria. METHODS The study was a cross sectional survey. The participants were 8394 people, aged 5 years and over, living in 37 rural communities, mesoendemic and nonendemic for onchocerciasis, in Kaduna State in northern Nigeria. The main outcome measures we...

The kidney graft survival rate at the Belfast City Hospital has consistently exceeded 80% at two and three years since the transplant programme began in 1968. This graft survival rate compares very favourably with that of other centres and should mean a difference in graft survival for paired kidneys when one kidney is used for a Northern Ireland recipient and the other for a recipient 'outside...

The third epidemic, which began at the end of the 19th century in China and reached the rest of the world via Hong Kong, is still ongoing. This summer a man died from plague in the city of Yumen in northern China. 30,000 inhabitants were confined to isolation when parts of the city were locked down. There was a plague outbreak in November in Madagascar, both in the provinces and in the capital ...

Author’s affiliations: S. Gomez, Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California; Northern California Cancer Center, 2201 Walnut Ave, Suite 300, Fremont, California 94538, [email protected]. C. O’Malley, Northern California Cancer Center, 2201 Walnut Ave, Suite 300, Fremont, California 94538 (affiliation at time of work), [email protected] A. Stro...

Scrub typhus, caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, has emerged recently in areas of northern China where the disease had not been known to exist. We analyzed epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory data for 104 patients who were admitted to a hospital in Fuyang City between 26 September and 1 November 2008. We showed that the major clinical manifestations of the patients were fever (100%), heada...

BACKGROUND Epilepsy is the most common serious neurological disorder and is one of the world's most prevalent non-communicable diseases. There are no recently published data on the prevalence of epilepsy in school children in Northern Saudi Arabia. OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of epilepsy and to show some of its risk factors in school children and adolescents...